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March-May 2016: A Time For Men – A Men’s Open Group

BEGINNING THURSDAY, MARCH 10th 3:30 – 5 PM Facilitated by Marc Taylor, MA, Ed.S., LPC The group will run for 6 weeks.* *UPDATE: 3 extra sessions were added to this group. Last session takes place May 5th, 2016. Please watch this space as we will be posting information when a new cycle begins. Thank you! Cost Read more…

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Book: On Silence

On Silence: 30 Days to a Powerful Spiritual Practice Check out LifePath Co-founder Joseph Dispenza’s book on silence as a spiritual practice. Get it on Amazon. Amazon Review: As a spiritual seeker, I have meditated for many years. But, I don’t think I really “understood” the power and purpose of silence until I encountered this Read more…

Wake up heart!

Wake up! You’ve slept too long in the iron bed of yearning. You’ve slept too long. The bedclothes are slovenly. Get up & make that bed of a heart! The alarm has gone off. What time is it? It is now! And you are late! Ha! I can’t be late for now, you say… That’s Read more…

This Will Find You Ready

When you lose everything, then you track. This world is always spinning, on chicken legs, at the edge of the forest. You will need each chip of obsidian, every flake of flint, all caught parts of conversations. Glimpses of clematis behind fences in hidden courtyards. To remember a soaker rain, trill of orioles at first Read more…

There’s No Place the White Clouds Can’t Go

Nowhere the plumage of doves and angels isn’t moving over the dusty stairways of the Ancient City. The Moorish tiles spell as always, the name of God in letters of fire, in the shade of blue that is exactly your eyes after love. I know both those loves. They take wing inside me, as if Read more…

Common Thread Coaching

COMMON THREAD COACHING An Introduction to Life Coaching by Nancy G. Shapiro Part I: Seeking Your Personal Best Though life coaching has been around for over a decade, people still identify it with sports. “Would you make me to do push-ups, like my coach did in high school?” a friend asked. When I smiled and Read more…

Writing Myself Back To Life

WRITING MYSELF BACK TO LIFE By Nancy G. Shapiro Summer 2002, Spirituality & Health magazine All my life I circled around the written word, mostly as a reader. I remember summer vacations filled with visits to the public library. My mother, sister, and I left each week with tottering piles of books that we Read more…

The Art of Your Soul

by Nancy G. Shapiro from the June 2005 issue of Spirituality & Health magazine In times of transition, let your intuition chart your future. All you need is a glue stick. “I can’t stand it! I hate this place!” My husband’s plaintive shout echoed between us. The 405 freeway was backed up for miles in Read more…

Yearning for Security: The Three Little Pigs

Joseph Dispenza Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? We all are, apparently. We come into this world from a comfortable place, the womb, and forever afterwards, it seems, we yearn for and seek out the security of that cozy, warm sanctuary. We try to build something around us that will insulate us from ‘the Read more…

Trusting the Process: Penelope

Joseph Dispenza The Universe has some great things in store for you if you will do all you can, then just sit still and trust ‘the process’ to work its way to a successful — and often dazzling — conclusion. When the Greek general Ulysses, King of Ithaca, told his wife Penelope that he had Read more…

Where Did the Gods Go?

What does leaving the gods out of ‘Troy’ mean for humankind? By Joseph Dispenza A subtitle for the new blockbuster, “Troy,” could be: “Where Have All the Gods Gone?” Except for a few jabs at the apparent powerlessness of the sun god Apollo, patron and protector of Troy, the gods are absent. In this way, Read more…

Toward Global Consciousness: King Arthur

Joseph Dispenza Every generation, it seems, re-creates King Arthur for its own purposes — and in its own image. This month a new movie is out on the King Arthur legend, a good time to look deeper into the mysterious person who is at the center of so much fascinating lore. Arthur may or may Read more…

The Ultimate Makeover: Cinderella

Joseph Dispenza Last month, the New York Times reported a story with this remarkable headline: ‘If Shoe Won’t Fit, Fix the Foot? Popular Surgery Raises Concern.’* ‘With vanity always in fashion and shoes reaching iconic cultural status,’ reporter Gardiner Harris writes, ‘women are having parts of their toes lopped off to fit into the latest Read more…

The Seeker: Looking for the Holy Grail

Joseph Dispenza Seeking happiness and fulfillment is a good thing. But what we may be seeking, ultimately, is the Truth at the center of ourselves. Remember the story of the Holy Grail: The Grail was said to be the cup of the Last Supper and at the Crucifixion to have received blood flowing from Christ’s Read more…

The Penantes: Blessings of the Household Gods

Joseph Dispenza There is a tremendously emotional scene in Virgil’s Aeneid when Aeneas, prince of Troy, is fleeing the burning ruins of his city. Making his way as quickly as possible to the harbor with his frail father on his back and his young son by the hand, Aeneas is suddenly stopped in his tracks Read more…

The “Gimme” Spirituality of The Secret

Joseph Dispenza Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) Leave it to our consumer capitalist culture to turn even high spiritual principles into cash. The creed of spiritual materialism has been inching up on us for some time from the primitive enclaves of fringe evangelical churches, where perspiration-drenched Read more…

Riches from the Depths: Poseidon

Joseph Dispenza Poseidon is a god of many names, including, for the Romans, Neptune. He is most famous as the god of the sea. The son of Cronus and Rhea, Poseidon is one of six siblings who eventually “divided the power of the world.” His brothers and sisters include: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Zeus. Read more…

Pygmalion and the Passionate Life

Joseph Dispenza At this time of year, our attention usually turns to one of the more romantic characters of mythology: Cupid, the personification of love — and not just love, but being-in-love. But there is another great love story in the myths, equally romantic and full of lessons. This myth is about the love we Read more…

Love Transforms: Beauty and the Beast

Joseph Dispenza The ageless children’s story Beauty and the Beast is one of the finest parables we have about the transforming qualities of love — and about one of life’s most important lessons: things are not always what they seem. Briefly, you’ll remember, a lovely young woman tries to save her father from certain doom Read more…

Looking Back: Orpheus

As the end of the calendar year quickly approaches, television, newspapers, and magazines are reviewing what has happened in the past twelve months. Watching and reading about the events in the past seem to be the order of the day. Even at home, you may find you and your family reflecting on the past. But Read more…

Hercules Cleans Up

Joseph Dispenza Like most authentic heroes, Hercules had a god as one of his parents. He was the son of the supreme deity, Zeus, and a mortal woman. Zeus’s queen, Hera, was jealous of Hercules, and when he was still an infant she sent two snakes to kill him in his crib. Hercules was found Read more…

Heaven on Earth

Joseph Dispenza Mankind will need to venture far beyond planet Earth to ensure the long-term survival of our species, according to the world’s best known scientist, Professor Stephen Hawking. The Daily Telegraph If you have a sense that the quality of life is deteriorating not only where you live, but all over the globe, you Read more…

Eros: The Ecstasy of Relationship

Joseph Dispenza Eros was the god of love in Greek mythology. And with a power as potent as that of love and desire, it should come as no surprise that Eros played a significant role in myth and legend. Indeed, Eros was the darling of poets and artists over the centuries. But there is more Read more…

Demeter: Nurtured by the Mother Within

Joseph Dispenza The ancients believed that there was a time when the earth enjoyed an unending season of temperate weather. Because trees were always green and flowers always bloomed, the world was filled with life and beauty. Crops also grew in abundance, and humans were blissfully happy in this earthly paradise. The goddess responsible for Read more…

Death and Rebirth: The Phoenix

Joseph Dispenza Here in Mexico, we are preparing for the year’s most remarkable celebration: the annual feast at the beginning of November of Day of the Dead. This may sound at first like a rather somber affair, but it is just the opposite. Spread over two days, it commemorates family members who have gone before Read more…

Chiron: The Wounded Healer as Mentor

Joseph Dispenza Chiron (pronounced KAI­ron) was the son of the Olympian god Kronos, who took on the form of a horse when he made love to Philyra, a sea nymph. Their union brought forth a centaur, a being with the head and upper body of a man, and the lower body of a horse. He Read more…

Aphrodite and the Recovery of Innocence

Joseph Dispenza She was the most beautiful of all Olympians — the goddess of love, grace, and beauty. You may remember that when young Paris, Prince of Troy, was asked to award the Golden Apple “To the Fairest,” he handed it without hesitation to Aphrodite. Her name in Greek is derived from two words, Aphro Read more…

Aesculapius

Joseph Dispenza In Greek mythology, Aesculapius (ess-que-LA-pe-us), son of Apollo, often referred to as the god of medicine or healing, was a Greek healer who became a Greek demigod, and was a famous physician. His mother, the nymph Coronis, a princess of Thessaly, died when he was an infant. Aesculapius was the most important among Read more…

10 Tips for Making Travel a Spiritual Practice

1. Create a travel shrine. A simple home altar dedicated to a trip will establish its spiritual character. Include photos of your destination, reminders of home and anything that contributes to emphasizing the trip’s underlying spiritual nature. 2. Pack virtues. Spiritual provisions are as important as material ones.

Understanding Boundaries and Standards

Beverly Nelson, Ph.D. In the LifePath retreats we lead, we help people understand that healthy boundaries and high standards are essential in creating a LifePath that is in alignment with who they are. In the many articles and books written about boundaries and standards, these topics are often treated under the same category. However, that Read more…

Thanksgiving Prayers and Blessings from Different Cultures and Faiths

Great Spirit of Universal Love and Compassion, Thank you for having chosen us out of limitless creative possibilities to share the spark of your Divine Life. Thank you for helping us to understand that we are all part of One creation, sublime and perfect. Thank you for all you have given us to reach this Read more…

Recovering a Sense of Balance in Retreat

Beverly Nelson, Ph.D. In Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now, Maya Angelou says, “If we step away for a time, we are not, as many may think and some will accuse, being irresponsible, but rather we are preparing ourselves to more ably perform our duties and discharge our obligations.” Many others have written about Read more…

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Book: God On Your Own

God on Your Own: Finding A Spiritual Path Outside Religion A book by Joseph Dispenza. Read the first chapter for free here. Get it on Amazon. Review: Finally, a book that understands me! I have been on a spiritual journey for many years now, turned way off by organized religion. I knew that religion was Read more…

Individual Non-Guided Retreats

A way for you to look deeper into your life for meaning and purpose—to help you gain clarity and direction in many areas: relationship, career, financial stability and prosperity, family history, health, life crises, grieving, creativity, life passages, mental and emotional well-being, and living to your fullest potential. Just a room, kitchen privileges, and the Read more…

Wedding Retreats

Couples have found our guided retreats profoundly transformative and deeply clarifying. A pre-nuptial retreat with you and your intended spouse, including parents and witnesses, can be a tremendously powerful opportunity for personal growth. Bride-to-be and groom-to-be look at the values and beliefs they are bringing to their marriage—and offer those to each other before exchanging Read more…

Individual Guided Retreats

You may feel the call to make a retreat on your own—but you would like some gentle guidance on how to frame your retreat time. We help you do that by providing a daily schedule with suggested activities that address your special issues. Perfect for you if you are going through a life transition, such Read more…

Other Guided Group Retreats

You may have a group who is interested in making a retreat at LifePath Center. We welcome groups from all over the world. We can design content especially for your group—or you may want to lead the group yourself. See our STAY WITH US page to learn about how to do that.

Psychological Counseling

Psychological counseling addresses a variety of personal and emotional issues. A licensed professional Psychologist can work with you on issues such as stress, anxiety, loneliness, depression, interpersonal relationships, self-esteem and confidence, attention deficit disorder, incest or sexual abuse, alcohol abuse, and many others. A Psychologist is trained to listen, understand, and help you with the Read more…

Craniosacral Therapy

Craniosacral therapy (CST) is a gentle manual manipulation of the back of the head used for diagnosis and for making corrections in a system made up of cerebrospinal fluid, cranial and dural membranes, cranial bones, and sacrum. The technique is somewhat similar to light massage that is aimed at freeing the flow of cerebrospinal fluid Read more…

Acupuncture

Acupuncture is the delivery system of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Traditional Chinese Medicine is based on Taoist Philosophy, although through the centuries, it has developed its own principles as applied to the art and science of medicine. The first to practice it were Taoist priests, and in their view, there were four levels at which one Read more…

Book: The Way Of The Traveler

The Way of the Traveler: Making Every Trip a Journey of Self-Discovery Check out LifePath Co-founder Joseph Dispenza’s book on travel as a spiritual practice. Get it on Amazon. Amazon Review: All of my life I have been passionate about traveling. The Way of the Traveler opened my eyes as to how I can truly Read more…

Book: Live Better Longer

Live Better Longer: The Parcells Center 7-Step Plan for Health and Longevity LifePath Co-Founder Joseph Dispenza’s book on staying healthy—naturally. Get it on Amazon. Amazon Review: Life altering reading providing spiritual & physical changes. This book has changed my life spiritually and physically! Even though the book is mostly about acquiring healthy eating and hygiene Read more…

LifePath Services

LifePath Services Classes Chair Yoga with Antonio Dementia Support Group for Family and Friends Enneagram Intermediate Group, Levels 1 and 2 Introduction to the Enneagram QiGong with Christian Silent Meditation with the SMA Meditation Community Sound Meditation with Shingetsu Billy White Tai Chi at LifePath! The Brain Exchange The Wisdom Circles of San Miguel with Read more... Continue Reading

The Importance of Retreat

The Importance of Retreat There are many reasons why you may choose to participate in a retreat. Replenishing your energy, feeding your soul, taking time out, going deeper into your sense of purpose, listening to your intuition, joining others of like heart, letting go of stress, and reflection are a few of these reasons. The Read more…

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Marina Sol

I made a retreat by myself at LifePath Center, with the guidance of Beverly and Joseph. What a wonderful experience! It helped me to understand that I had many more options to create the rest of my life with awareness and joy.” Marina Sol, Denver

Lorna A. Doone

Thank you for your hospitality while we three (Carol, Mavis, and I, Lorna) stayed at your heavenly Life Path Center! I so enjoyed every moment there! Your place is so inviting and always very neat and clean. Great service and accommodations. I truly will be back at some point, and I’m not sure when that Read more…

Nancy Dusseau

San Miguel de Allende welcomes and encourages transformation. LifePath makes it possible. It’s the perfect place to savor the sense of well-being that follows the various classes and treatments LifePath has to offer. For instance, just one hour with bodyworker Mike Herbert helps me to find my balance again, relieve stress and revive my body Read more…

Linda Merchant

I had been looking for just such a program to help me get over a relationship—and get into a new one. Going through the LifePath Retreat helped me to see where I had been (not good territory for me, as it turned out), and where I would like to go (hey, it’s my future and Read more…

Geoff Grayson

Being at LifePath Center was for me a ‘journey within a journey’—and it was exactly what I needed at exactly the right time. I was able to see clearly some of the blocks I put in my path, and through the wisdom of the three of the LifePath Practitioners, I was able to move past Read more…

David McClure

In a magnificent, serene setting, I experienced the most powerful transformative process of my life. This from one who has “been there, done that” for forty years. The LifePath guided retreat is a process that works, led by two brilliant “travel guides.” David McClure, Senior Minister, Unity Church of Dallas, TX

Getting to San Miguel

Fly to León, Mexico (BJX) The most practical way to fly to San Miguel is to take a flight to León International Airport (BJX). It is approximately 75 minutes from San Miguel. There are shuttle services and private cars with drivers who will meet you as you exit the customs area and drive you directly Read more…